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Bug 610899 - I want to see love (render <3 as a heart)
I want to see love (render <3 as a heart)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Artwork
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 670341 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-24 02:44 UTC by Greg Grossmeier
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
empathy's non-rendering of <3 (10.87 KB, image/png)
2010-02-24 02:44 UTC, Greg Grossmeier
Details
how pidgin renders <3 (22.81 KB, image/png)
2010-02-24 02:45 UTC, Greg Grossmeier
Details

Description Greg Grossmeier 2010-02-24 02:44:45 UTC
Created attachment 154558 [details]
empathy's non-rendering of <3

It would be nice to have empathy render "<3" as a nice red heart, like most other IM clients do.

running empathy 2.29.91-1ubuntu1 (current in Lucid)
Comment 1 Greg Grossmeier 2010-02-24 02:45:20 UTC
Created attachment 154559 [details]
how pidgin renders <3
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-02-24 16:11:17 UTC
Empathy uses the emoticon from the  icon naming spec:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html

Maybe you could request to add such icon to the spec?
Comment 3 Greg Grossmeier 2010-08-10 15:41:18 UTC
Just keeping this bug updated.

I emailed Rodney Dowes, the person in charge of the Icon Naming Spec privately, then on the mailing list.

Unfortunately, mailman got confused by my quoting of multiple emails, so it split it up into two chunks, see:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-March/011375.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-March/011376.html

Unfortunately, no one has responded (negatively or positively). I'm at a loss of how to proceed.
Comment 4 Will Thompson 2011-05-16 15:06:14 UTC
Google Mail's in-browser IM client shows an animated transition of the characters <3 being transformed into a handwritten heart symbol. These are the frames of the animation: https://mail.google.com/mail/im/emotisprites/heart0.png

Perhaps Empathy could do something similar (possibly using Clutter)?
Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-05-17 07:49:17 UTC
As we are using Adium themes shoudn't we do it using web stuffs? Any idea how that works in Google's client?
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-02-20 08:05:44 UTC
*** Bug 670341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:03:41 UTC
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